Motivational Quotes

Time

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

10.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

11.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

12.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

18.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

24.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

25.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

28.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

31.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

32.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

34.

You love what you find time to do.

35.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

38.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

40.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

43.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

44.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee